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I know there has been a thread about this, but there's only 4 or so days to go and, against my better instincts, I'm getting dead excited. I'm going to Leeds.

Who is going? Who are you likely to see and who are you excited for?

I'm not excited for many bands- The Cure, Future of the Left, Pulled Apart By Horses, Los Camp, SBTRKT and Mastodon are about the limits of my excitement. Though inevitably I'll get dead pumped for Foo Fighters throughout Friday.

Is there anyone on the line-up, smaller down especially, that I should take notice of?

I've never been that keen on them live, but I know a lot of people who love them and it will give casual listeners like me a chance to hear a few songs between other bands. I know what you mean though. I can't wait for another huge cure set though!

Plus it also looks as though Frank Turner's Mongol Horde are now playing on the Sunday on the Lock Up stage. There were rumours that Green Day were playing a secret set but there doesn't seem to be room there unless the times on the main stage are adjusted instead of a 3 Hour Foos set?

and am looking forward to seeing them, but would REALLY like it if they could do three hours of one track after another, something like 30-40 songs. There's enough to choose from. What we'll actually get is about 20 with some very long jam sections in the middle. They're essentially a noisy pop band and should play to their strengths. It should still be fun though.

I love the last night in a “makes me really sick way”. Have lots of bizarre memories, mainly of fires, gin and vomiting.

Remember one year we were camped in Orange/Red, me and a friend were off our heads and listening to the nearest DJ until our bus at 7am, with everyone else asleep. All of a sudden this lad bombs out of nowhere and does a flip landing on one of my sleeping friends’ tent- My friend inside it, stoned as hell and asleep.

Was diamond seeing this look of absolute terror on this lad’s face when he realised he had tried to destroy the property of much older, much bigger lads.

That said, I went every year from 2003 until 2010 and had a whale of a time.

Still, Bramham doesn't have a campsite named after Jimmy Hill, so it pales in comparison to Tempsie. Also, the Sunday nights were more intense, there was full scale riots rather than GCSE kids dressed like Topman models thinking they're "going fucking mental" for making large fires like you get these days.

(I didn't participate in the rioting, I'm just viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles in a bitter manner, like you do)